Three Things You Can Do Year-Round to Prepare for Successfully Selling Your Home
Preparing your home to be put on the market can be quite stressful. Preparations are rushed, trying, and typically require a large amount of manual labor. This is especially the case if you’re like most sellers and put off getting ready for the sale a few weeks before putting up the sign.
Plan ahead
Waiting until the weekend before selling your home is going to cause you way too much stress and anxiety – not to mention a lot of unnecessary expenses. Make a list of things around the house that need to be fixed now, and get to them a weekend at a time every month or two. By taking your time to do a few tasks in the year or two before going on the market, you will be saving yourself a lot of unnecessary stress when it comes time to actually sell the home. Not only will you not be as anxious, but you won’t be as hasty to get things working, and you’ll do a far better job. (If you hire a contractor to do the work, you’ll also save a few bucks by hiring them when they’re not too busy rather than in the summer during their peak demand times.)
Don’t forget the front yard!
Don’t forget to plant bulbs in September/October so your buyers can see a beautiful flower garden when they visit your home in the spring. Many homeowners focus so much on things like paint, organizing the kitchen, and arrangement of furniture that they forget that the yard will be the first thing that potential buyers will see when they come to view the home. A green, clean-cut lawn will go a long way towards getting would-be purchasers to see your home as the right home for them.
Minor repairs
Give yourself the benefit of some monetary savings as well as the luxury of avoiding a schedule crunch by planning ahead and hiring contractors in the off-season. Painters are really busy during summer months so negotiating a painting contract during winter or fall will allow you to paint your home (especially the inside) for a better price. The same goes for heating & air conditioning contractors and moving your stuff into storage.
With just a little foresight, you can greatly enhance the effectiveness of preparing your home for sale.
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